Hollywood city commissioners discussed a new law that would facilitate serving liquor until 4 a.m. in the city's "live music district," The Miami Herald reported.
The ordinance would mean more businesses could qualify for late-night liquor licenses.
“We are trying to incentivize people to open the kind of places we want,” Mayor Peter Bober was quoted as saying.
The current license requirement is six months, a full kitchen and $3,000. The new proposal would allow bars without kitchens to apply for $2,000 if they have live music from 10 p.m. until 2 a.m. at least four nights a week, the newspaper reported.
“We would love to have new businesses downtown,” the co-owner of Whiskey Tando, John Todora, was quoted as saying. “It would help all of us.”
Todora applied for the liquor license in 2009. He said he had to add a kitchen and that the process was long.
Jorge Camejo, Hollywood’s Community Redevelopment Agency director, is currently working on the ordinance with business owners.
Bober hopes the recent $3 million renovation on a 10-acre park in the city will also attract visitors.
